Steel Cantilever Sheet Pile Wall

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Steel cantilever sheet pile wall.

The stability of cantilever steel sheet pile walls will need to be considered in cohesive soils. Cantilever sheet piles are used where the height of the soil or water to be retained is smaller than 4 5 m. Because cantilever walls derive their support solely from the foundation soils they may be installed in relatively close proximity to existing structures. The various forces acting on a cantilever sheet pile wall are the active earth pressure on the back of the wall and the passive earth pressure on the front of the wall.

Steel piles are suitable for permanent structures in which the depth of driving exceeds 3 m. Can be reused on several projects. The sheetpiling will fail if this height is exceeded. Generally the sheet piles are made of steel or timber.

A cantilevered sheet pile wall performs somewhat like a cantilevered beam. Steel sheet piling is the most common because of several advantages over other materials. Therefore for design of sheetpiling walls in cohesive soils the first step should be the investigation of the limiting height. The stability number relates to kick out at the toe of the sheetpiling wall.

Provides high resistance to driving stresses. The sheet piling is driven to a sufficient depth into the ground to become fixed as a vertical can tilever resisting a load from active earth pressure. Dredge the front side of the wall.